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From: raob@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (richard oxbrow)
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Subject: Re: A-12, Australian Carrier? A-4's..
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Date: 21 Dec 90 02:51:32 GMT
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From: raob@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (richard oxbrow)

In article <1990Dec20.015931.28940@cbnews.att.com> disc3c1@jetson.uh.edu writes:
>From: disc3c1@jetson.uh.edu
> 
> HELP! About maybe, a year ago, there was a discussion of SR-71s, as there
> ...
>version of the SR-71.. Help... also, Can anybody Tell me, will Australia get
>an Aircraft carrier EVER??? I wanna be a Carrier Pilot, and I have the option

In a word NO simply because we are never likely to have enough money in the
till to pay for a REAL aircraft carrier let alone paying the people on board.
There is possibly a very slim chance that we could get a `claytons' carrier,
ie. one that  launches harrier like aircraft and helicopters.

At the moment all the naval money is being sunk into a bunch of kockum
submarines (it was suggested we buy French nuclear subs.),blohm & voss
frigates and minehunting cat's.
 
>is Australia getting its A-4 Skyhawks back from New Zealand???
>Scott Marshall
>(Call Fightertown, USA BBS at (713)868-4372 24 hours a day.. I'm the Sysop)
> 

I don't think so, by the time we dumped them (we sold them for $20 million)
they we being catapulted into the sea instead of the air (by accident) and
the aircaft carrier was literally falling to pieces.
In any case both the F-18s and F-111s were designed/modified for carrier use ;-)
(but they were configured for land-based runways)

	richard..

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